Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money
by throwaway894345 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:22AM
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> Do we still believe this is true?
No, hence the rest of the sentence:
> which is a political way of saying the software industry is underpaid already
To be clear, it's FAANG who are saying there is a shortage of qualified engineers in their campaign to procure more foreign labor, but really this means they don't want to have to pay domestic engineers what they're worth (they want more H1-B visas to increase the supply and thus decrease the unit cost of engineers--with the nice bonus that H1-B holders are more easily abused because the employer has the power to effectively have these holders deported).
> is thinking about applying a measure that will scare away their most talented engineers? It doesn't hold.
A couple of possibilities:
1. Google is fallible
2. Google may be exceptional in the software industry (e.g., they may be okay with some attrition because they're playing a longer game than others in the industry, or perhaps because they already pay top-tier salaries and don't believe attrition will affect them)
No, hence the rest of the sentence:
> which is a political way of saying the software industry is underpaid already
To be clear, it's FAANG who are saying there is a shortage of qualified engineers in their campaign to procure more foreign labor, but really this means they don't want to have to pay domestic engineers what they're worth (they want more H1-B visas to increase the supply and thus decrease the unit cost of engineers--with the nice bonus that H1-B holders are more easily abused because the employer has the power to effectively have these holders deported).
> is thinking about applying a measure that will scare away their most talented engineers? It doesn't hold.
A couple of possibilities:
1. Google is fallible
2. Google may be exceptional in the software industry (e.g., they may be okay with some attrition because they're playing a longer game than others in the industry, or perhaps because they already pay top-tier salaries and don't believe attrition will affect them)